Publications
§
Directories
— Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879
— Herbert Fry's Guide to the London
Charities, 1917
— a list of directories
§
Etiquette, Guides and Manuals
— appropriate hours for visiting and dining
— The Barkham Burroughs Encyclopaedia [1889]
— 'Common Sense for Housemaids'
— 'The Cook's Guide and Housekeeper's and
Butler's Assistant' [1861]
— decor, advice on
— 'Dinners and Diners'[pub. 1899]
— 'Enquire Upon Everything' [1894]
— etiquette from Cassells Household Guide
— Guide to the Unprotected in Matters
Relating to Property and Income [1874]
— The Household Cyclopedia [1881]
— The Housemaid, Her Duties, and
How to Perform Them [c.1870]
— 'The Lady's Dressing Room'
— 'The Ladies' and Gentleman's
Model Letter Writer'
— 'London at Dinner', or, 'Where to Dine' [1858]
— morning calls and visits
— Mrs. Beeton's Book of
Household Management [1861]
— 'Our Deportment' [1881]
— "Police Duty" Catechism and Reports
— 'The Scholars Handbook
of Household Management
'
§
History
— The Queen's London, 1896
— Views of the Pleasure
Gardens of London, 1896;
H.A.Rogers
§
Humorous
— Cruikshank's Comic Almanack (cartoons)
— London Characters and the Humourous Side
of Life; Henry Mayhew &W.S. Gilbert c.1871
— Punch
§
Improving books
§
Journals, Magazines and Newspapers
— '1 A.M at the
Morning Mammoth
'
— the cheap press
— 'the daily press'
— The Daily Telegraph
— influence on the working man of popular press
— journalists
see
Professions & Trades - Journalists
— a list of newspapers (Dickens's Dictionary)
— London Gazette
— 'Newspaper people'
— sold uncut
— supplements, size of
— newspapers in London
— The Times
— 'the weekly press'
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Lectures and other pamphlets
— Degeneration Amongst Londoners; 1885;
James Cantlie
— The Early Years of Queen Victoria's Reign;
1896;
Henry Holland Burne
§
Novels
— Wilkie Collins and his works
Charles Dickens
— Charles Dickens and his works
— Dickens' Novels (etexts)
— Mord Em'ly by William Pett Ridge (etext)
§
Poetry
— London Poems; 1866;
Robert Buchanan
— Song of the Shirt; 1843;
Thomas Hood
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Popular Fiction
(eg.street ballads,penny dreadfuls)
— dangers of serials (1)
(2)
— '
The Mysteries of London
' (etext)
— Penny Dreadfuls and Gallows Literature
— 'The Press of Seven Dials'
— '
The String of Pearls
' (Sweeney Todd etext)
— street ballads
— '
Varney, The Vampyre
' (etext)
§
Popularity of Printed Material
— a view from 1837
§
Social Investigation/Journalism
— The Great Metropolis; 1837;
James Grant
— Sketches in London; 1838;
James Grant
— Sanitary Ramblings; 1848;
Hector Gavin
— Sinks of London Laid Open; 1848
— Sketches of London Life and Character
(aka Gavarni in London); 1849;
Albert Smith et al.
— London Labour and the London Poor; 1851;
Henry Mayhew
— London by Day and Night; 1852;
David W.Bartlett
— The Rookeries of London; 1852;
Thomas Beames
— Curiosities of London Life; 1853;
Charles Manby Smith
— The Million-Peopled City; 1853;
Rev. J. Garwood
— London Shadows; 1854;
George Godwin
— The Little World of London; 1857;
Charles Manby Smith
— The Night Side of London; 1858;
J. Ewing Ritchie
— Twice Round the Clock; 1859;
George Sala
— Gaslight and Daylight; 1859;
George Sala
— About London; 1860;
J. Ewing Ritchie
— Ragged London in 1861;
John Hollingshead
— The Business of Pleasure, 1865 [1879 ed.];
Edmund Yates
— Our Social Bees; 1865; Andrew Wynter,
— Lights and Shadows of London Life, 1867;
[
James Payn
]
— Some Habits and Customs of the
Working Classes; 1867;
Thomas Wright
— Unsentimental Journeys;
or Byways of the Modern Babylon; 1867;
James Greenwood
— The Seven Curses of London; 1869;
James Greenwood
— The Terrible Sights of London; 1870;
Thomas Archer
— Episodes in an Obscure Life; 1871;
Richard Rowe
— London : A Pilgrimage; 1872;
Gustave Dore & Blanchard Jerrold
— The Wilds of London; 1874;
James Greenwood
— In Strange Company; 1874;
James Greenwood
— Mystic London; 1875;
Charles Maurice Davies
— Street Life in London; 1877;
J.Thomson and Adolphe Smith
— Days and Nights in London; 1880;
J. Ewing Ritchie
— Low-Life Deeps, 1881;
James Greenwood
— Life in the London Streets; 1881;
Richard Rowe
— The Great Army of London Poor; 1882;
Thomas Wright
[Wright's pseudonym 'The River-side Visitor']
— Bitter Cry of Outcast London; 1883;
W.C.Preston / A.Mearns
— How the Poor Live; 1883;
George R. Sims
— Homes of the London Poor; 1883 (2nd ed)
Octavia Hill
— Mysteries of Modern London; 1883;
James Greenwood
[Greenwood's pseudonym
'One of the Crowd']
— Odd People in Odd Places; 1883;
James Greenwood
— Toilers in London; 1883;
James Greenwood
[Greenwood's pseudonym
'One of the Crowd']
— In the Slums; 1884;
D. Rice-Jones
— London at Midnight; 1885;
Henry Vigar-Harris
— The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon;
1885;
W T Stead
— Dottings of a Dosser; 1886;
Howard Goldsmid
— Horrible London; 1889;
George R. Sims
— Tempted London; [c.1889];
Anon.
— Toilers in London; or Inquiries concerning
Female Labour in the Metropolis; 1889;
Anon
— The Pinch of Poverty; 1892;
Thomas Wright
[Wright's pseudonym 'The River-side Visitor']
— The Horse World of London; 1893;
W.J.Gordon
— Round London : Down East and Up West;
1894;
Montagu Williams Q.C.
— London Up to Date; 1895;
George Sala
— Life in West London; 1897;
Arthur Sherwell
— A Looker-on in London; 1899;
Mary H. Krout
— The Hooligan Nights; 1899;
Clarence Rook
— London and Londoners in the 1850s and 60s;
1924;
Alfred Rosling Bennett